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vossy1
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   Old Thread  #33 5 Jul 2025 at 3.40pm  0  Login    Register
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Didnt know that! I wonder why they dont really promote it?
chewbakka
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   Old Thread  #32 5 Jul 2025 at 2.41pm  0  Login    Register
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you can still get activate friom mainline..
bigjim001
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   Old Thread  #31 5 Jul 2025 at 10.34am  0  Login    Register
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Essential b5
AnglingDays&Way
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   Old Thread  #30 5 Jul 2025 at 7.27am  0  Login    Register
In reply to Post #28
Wasn't that activ-8? The original grange didn't contain any flavour. CSL was added but people often used milky toffee or sweet plum as well.
junglist
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   Old Thread  #29 5 Jul 2025 at 7.20am  0  Login    Register
In reply to Post #28
Didn't the OG grange bait also contain blue cheese powder?
Sealine
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   Old Thread  #28 5 Jul 2025 at 5.21am  0  Login    Register
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The Grange bait flavour was a boiled or smoked ham flavour that they brought off Rod Hutchinson
Sealine
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   Old Thread  #27 5 Jul 2025 at 5.02am  0  Login    Register
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Trigerol is a figment of some ones imagination ,like so many supposed exotic ingredients ,
the flavour which was liver came from Pancosma , I knew the dear lady ( dead several years now from the big C )who operated the office in Nottingham quite well , and she told me what Nutrabaits were buying at the time and the base mix was a copy of a very successful bait still in production today but without the Robin Red (too expensive ) They actually purchased their first Krill and Hydrolysed fish from the company that still make the bait.
As for Hydrolysed Chicken liver I doubt it, they were selling Beef liver powder at £8.00 for 50grms at the time.
vossy1
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   Old Thread  #26 4 Jul 2025 at 6.39pm  0  Login    Register
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Im not sure that isn't true of all the older baits (not just Nutrabaits) with the various laws and restrictions placed on ingredients.
NemesisWitch
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   Old Thread  #25 4 Jul 2025 at 10.54am  0  Login    Register
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Yep... BFM is easily made from scratch to the original recipe.
Trigga would be more difficult as Trigerol isn't available now, although the bulk of that product was actually hydrolysed chicken liver. So adding that with krill, to a good proper fishmeal/CLO/milks type base would get you pretty close I'd have thought?
kells
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kells
   Old Thread  #24 4 Jul 2025 at 10.13am  0  Login    Register
In reply to Post #19
Haiths Robi red, CLO fishmeal and milk proteins all still readily available. Maybe a few tweeks. But I doubt it effected the baits ability to catch that much I'd of thought.
NemesisWitch
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   Old Thread  #23 4 Jul 2025 at 8.56am  1  Login    Register
In reply to Post #20
Keramine and a meat meal (not meat and bone).
The flavour was a water based Boiled Ham.
Having also air dried some too many moons ago, I remember the smell taking on a slight parmesan type aroma, so I suspected that there was some form of cheese powder in there too (as there was in the Grange)
And I agree, the original was a damn fine bait!
Hitman
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   Old Thread  #22 4 Jul 2025 at 7.52am  0  Login    Register
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Forgot about Active-8

I still have some that I air dried about 15 years ago
MrNuvawun
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   Old Thread  #21 3 Jul 2025 at 10.11pm  0  Login    Register
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I’d be interested to know too!
junglist
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   Old Thread  #20 3 Jul 2025 at 9.01pm  0  Login    Register
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Does anyone what the key ingredients in activ8 were?
kgb3366
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   Old Thread  #19 3 Jul 2025 at 6.54pm  0  Login    Register
Can’t include BFM or Trigga because some of the core ingredients are just not available anymore , yet Nutrabaits still call the new baits with the old name , basically resting on the laurels of the old recipes. Not saying the new base mixes are not great carp catchers , but did they have the same impact on waters as the originals did 20/30 years ago ?
Probably not .
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